Corset



N. F. T. HUNT.

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CORSET` N0. 556,927. Patented Mar. 24, 1896.

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NATIIANIEL FREDERICK THAYER HUNT, OF BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS.

C O R S ET SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,92*?, dated March 24, 1896..

Application filed September 27, 1895. Serial No. 563,826. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may con/cern.'

Be it known that I, NATHANIEL FREDERICK THAYER HUNT, of Braintree, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Corset, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation showing a part of a corset. Fig. 2 is a plan of a blank adapted to form the sleeve shown in Fig. 3 in elevation and in Fig. 4 in section on line 4 4 of Fig. f3. Fig. 5 is an elevation, andFig. 0 a section, on lines 6 G of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7 7 of Fig. 0.

All the figures save Fig. 1 are enlarged for clearness.

My invention is an improved corset comprising sheets of textile material united by parallel seams to form a pocket, a steel or bone narrower than the pocket and fitting loosely in the pocket, and a sleeve which is for a portion of its length narrower than the pocket and large enough at its narrower portion to fit loosely over the end of the steel, but which is wider and thinner for the rest of its lengt-h, its wider and thinner portion iitting tightly in the pocket to hold the sleeve in place in the pocket.

In the drawings, A is a part of a corset. The parallel seams a unite front and rear thicknesses of sheet material to form pockets for the steels B', which are narrower than the pockets and t loosely therein.

The objections to the ordinary corset arise mainly from the tendency of the upper end oi' the steels to abrade the material of the pockets and break the stitches at the upper end of the pockets. One remedy for these objections is proposed'in the patent to Rheubottoni, No. 839,32Cn5dated April 6, 1886, which describes a meta lic sleeve for the end of the steel, and his co set is in that respect like mine, but his sleeve is of uniform width throughout its length and of uniform thickness throughout length, while my sleeve is narrow and thick for a part of its length and wide and thin'for the rest of its length; and both these chan es of forni are functional, for the narrow an thick portion not only serves as a socket in Lwhich the end of the steel can play and thus protects the material and the seams which form the pockets from abrasion, but also prevents the steel from getting diagonal with relation to the pocket, while the wide and thin portion distends the pocket from seam to seam, and at the same time causes the material of the pocket to hug the slopes oit' the sleeve from the narrow thick portion to the wide thin portion.

My sleeve B is a socket at its lower portion and a tang at its upper portion, and the socket portion is narrower than the pocket and yet wide enough and thick enough to allow the end of the steel B to play in it, while the tang portion is wide enough to distend the pocket from seam to seam and thin enough to cause the material of the pocket to hug the tang and the sloping surfaces which connect the narrow thick socket portion with the wide thin tang portion, as above explained.

In the practical manufacture of corsets I make my sleeve from a flattened tube (shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 7') preferably made from the iiat blank shown in Fig. 2. This flattened tube is so much narrower than the distance between the seams d that it can be readily inserted in the pocket and about the end of the steel B and then flattened, as shown in Figs. 1, 5 and 6, the sleeve thuscompleted being made up of a thin tang as wide as the pocket and a thick socket narrower than the pocket but wider than the steel, the whole having the new mode of operation above explained.

I am aware of the United States patents to Johnston, No. 494,064, dated March 21, 1893; Bowling, No. 878,080, datedFebruary 21, 1888; Turner, No. 253,642, dated February 14, 1882; Rheubottom, No. 339,320, dated April G, 1886; British patent to Frances Hughes, No. 21,08.7 of 1891, and German patent to Mautner, No. 32,274, and disclaim all shown therein, for none of them shows a corset made up of a pocket containing a steel narrower than the pocket and a sleeve whose upper portion is a thin wide tang iitting closely in the pocket and whose lower portion is a socket for the end of the steel thicker and narrower than the tang portion.

What I claim asmy invention is IOO The improved corset above described comtlian the socket, and all the parts being arprising layers of fabric; a pocket formed ranged is described. therebetween by parallel seams; a steel m- T T O l, ,l ranged in the pocket and a sleeve about the AATHMIEL TRDDLRM THMER um I' 5 upper end of that steel, the sleeve being made lVitnesses:

up of a tang and socket, the tang being as J. E. MAYNADIER, Wide as the pocket, and Wider and thinner J. R. SNOW. 

